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UPCOMING TITLES

10/10/2011:  The Big Roads by Earl Swift
10/17/2011:  The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why we Pay What We Do by Eduardo Porter
10/24/2011:  The Heart and the Fist by Eric Greitens
10/31/2011:  They Called Me Mad by John Monahan
11/7/2011:  Transcendence by Norman Rosenthal
11/14/2011:  Knuckler by Tim Wakefield
11/21/2011:  Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
11/28/2011:  If You Ask Me (and of course you won't) by Betty White
12/5/2011:  Bull Canyon by Lin Pardey
12/12/2011:  La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life by Elaine Sciolino
12/19/2011:  A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill
12/26/2011:  And I Shall Have Some Peace There by Margaret Roach

PAST TITLES

10/3/2011:  Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
9/26/2011:  Pox by Michael Willrich
9/19/2011:  Three Ways to Capsize a Boat by Chris Stewart
9/12/2011:  703: How I Lost More than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life by Nancy Makin
9/5/2011:  The Ones Who Hit the Hardest by Chad Millman and Shawn Coyne
8/29/2011:  Moon River and Me by Andy Williams
8/22/2011:  The White House Doctor by Connie Mariano
8/15/2011:  Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier
8/8/2011:  Plastic by Susan Freinkel
8/1/2011:  Amore by Mark Rotella
7/25/2011:  Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Prof. Gail Steketee Ph.D. and Prof. Randy Frost Ph.D.
7/18/2011:  North by Northwestern by Captain Sig Hansen & Mark Sundeen
7/11/2011:  Lego: A Love Story by Jonathan Bender
7/4/2011:  Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla R. Miller
6/27/2011:  The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
6/20/2011:  All by My Selves by Jeff Dunham
6/13/2011:  The Tin Ticket by Deborah J. Swiss
6/6/2011:  The Last Boy by Jane Leavy
5/30/2011:  Spent by Avis Cardella
5/23/2011:  Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Gary Noesner
5/16/2011:  Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight about Animals by Hal Herzog
5/9/2011:  Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
5/2/2011:  Into the Storm by Reed Timmer
4/25/2011:  Franklin and Eleanor by Hazel Rowley
4/18/2011:  Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
4/11/2011:  Beer is Proof God Loves Us by Charles W. Bamforth
4/4/2011:  Breakthrough by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg
3/28/2011:  Country Driving by Peter Hessle
3/21/2011:  Bloody Crimes by James Swanson
3/14/2011:  The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
3/7/2011:  Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession by Craig Childs
2/21/11:  Ah-Choo by Jennifer Ackerman
2/14/11:  A Mighty Long Way by Carlotta Walls Lanier
2/7/11:  The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
1/31/11:  A Little Bit Wicked by Kristin Chenoweth
1/24/11:  Winter World by Bernd Heinrich
1/17/11:  Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
1/10/11:  The Man Who Lied to His Laptop by Clifford Nass
1/3/11:  Learning to Breathe by Alison Wright
12/27/2010:  The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
12/20/2010:  Family Meals by Michael Tucker
12/13/2010:  Nothing to Fear by Adam Cohen
12/6/2010:  Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
11/29/2010:  French Toast by Harriet Welty Rochefort
11/22/2010:  Mrs. Adams in Winter by Michael O'Brien
11/15/2010:  The Big One by David Kinney
11/8/2010:  Germs, Genes, & Civilization: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today by David P. Clark
11/1/2010:  The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman
10/25/2010:  The Great Depression: A Diary by Benjamin Roth
10/18/2010:  The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter by Holly Robinson
10/11/2010:  Driving Like Crazy by P. J. O'Rourke
10/4/2010:  Vanished Smile by R. A. Scotti
9/27/2010:  Life's That Way by Jim Beaver
9/20/2010:  The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain deBotton
9/13/2010:  Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne by James Gavin
9/6/2010:  Grounded by Seth Stevenson
8/30/2010:  The Chris Farley Show by Tom Farley, Jr. & Tanner Colby
8/23/2010:  Eating by Jason Epstein
8/16/2010:  Asleep by Molly Caldwell Crosby
8/9/2010:  The Sure Thing by Eric Adelson
8/2/2010:  The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson
7/26/2010:  Central Park in the Dark by Marie Winn
7/19/2010:  My Remarkable Journey by Larry King
7/12/2010:  Living Oprah by Robyn Okrant
7/5/2010:  The Candy Bombers byAndrei Cherny
6/28/2010:  Born Round by Frank Bruni
6/21/2010:  Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout
6/14/2010:  Hands of My Father by Myron Uhlberg
6/7/2010:  The Center of the Universe by Nancy Bachrach
5/31/2010:  Close Encounters of the Third Grade by Phillip Done
5/24/2010:  The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller
5/17/2010:  Muffins and Mayhem Recipes for a Happy--if Disorderly--Life by Suzanne Beecher
5/10/2010:  The Art of Making Money by Jason Kersten
5/3/2010:  Life with Pop by Janis Abrahms Spring
4/26/2010:  Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel by Julia Keller
4/19/2010:  Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood
4/12/2010:  Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
4/5/2010:  Drunkard by Neil Steinberg
3/29/2010:  Passing Strange by Martha A. Sandweiss
3/22/2010:  Little Pink House by Jeff Benedict
3/15/2010:  Rocket Men by Craig Nelson
3/8/2010:  Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison
3/1/2010:  The Box from Braunau by Jan Elvin
2/22/2010:  Promises I Made My Mother by Sam Haskell
2/15/2010:  The Lassa Ward by Ross I. Donaldson
2/8/2010:  The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment by A. J. Jacobs
2/1/2010:  A Slave No More by David W. Blight
1/25/2010:  Cowboy & Wills by Monica Holloway
1/18/2010:  Convictions by John Kroger
1/11/2010:  Dumbfounded by Matt Rothschild
1/4/2010:  Note by Note by Tricia Tunstall
12/28/2009:  Unexpected Blessings by Roxanne Black
12/21/2009:  The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine
12/14/2009:  The Man Who Made Lists by Joshual Kendall
12/7/2009:  Loot by Sharon Waxman
11/30/2009:  Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure by Matthew Algeo
11/23/2009:  Turtle Feet by Nikolai Grozni
11/16/2009:  The Lost City of Z by David Grann
11/9/2009  Hats & Eyeglasses by Martha Frankel
11/2/2009:  The Mascot by Mark Kurzem
10/26/2009:  If you Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? by Bill Heavey
10/19/2009:  Waking Up in Eden by Lucnda Fleeson
10/12/2009:  Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer
10/5/2009:  The Genius of Instinct by Dr. Hendrie Weisinger
9/28/2009:  The Midwife by Jennifer North
9/21/2009:  The Coolest Race on Earth by John Hanc
9/14/2009:  Street Gang by Michael Davis
9/7/2009:  The Ultimate Battle by Bill Sloan
8/31/2009:  The Scent Trail by Celia Lyttelton
8/24/2009:  I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Diana Joseph
8/17/2009:  Crazy Good by Charles Leerhsen
8/10/2009:  Against Medical Advice by James Patterson & Hal Friedman & Cory Friedman
8/3/2009:  White House Ghosts by Robert Schlesinger
7/27/2009:  A Life in Twilight by Mark Wolverton
7/20/2009:  The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee
7/13/2009:  Gangleader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
7/6/2009:  The Genetic Strand: Exploring a Family History Through DNA by Edward Ball
6/29/2009:  Scheisshaus Luck by Pierre Berg with Brian Brock
6/22/2009:  Man vs. Weather by Dennis Diclaudio
6/15/2009:  Write It When I'm Gone by Thomas M. DeFrank
6/8/2009:  Furious Improvisation by Susan Quinn
6/1/2009:  Change in the Weather by Mark McEwen
5/25/2009:  The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry by Kathleen Flinn
5/18/2009:  The Necklace by Cheryl Jarvis
5/11/2009:  Always By My Side by Jim Nantz
5/4/2009:  The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby & John Busby
4/27/2009:  Pitch Perfect by Mickey Rapkin
4/20/2009:  Listening Is an Act of Love by Dave Isay
4/13/2009:  Radioman by Carol Edgemon Hipperson
4/6/2009:  To Love What Is by Alix Kates Shulman
3/30/2009:  Bowling Across America by Mike Walsh
3/23/2009:  Thin is the New Happy by Valerie Frankel
3/16/20090:  Boom! by Tom Brokaw
3/9/2009:  Raising Steaks by Betty Fussell
3/2/2009:  A Comrade Lost and Found by Jan Wong
2/23/2009:  Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them by David Anderegg
2/16/2009:  The Ungarnished Truth by Ellie Matthews
2/9/2009:  A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
2/2/2009:  A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
1/26/2009:  Better: A Surgeon's Notes On Performance by Atul Gawande
1/19/2009:  Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
1/12/2009:  Greasy Rider by Greg Melville
1/5/2009:  Where Did I Leave My Glasses by Marth Weinman Lear

2008

12/29/2008:  A Few Seconds of Panic by Stephan Fatsis
12/22/2008:  Julie Andrews by Richard Stirling
12/15/2008:  Daddy Needs a Drink by Robert Wilder
12/8/2008:  Cure, Unknown by Pamela Weintraub
12/1/2008:  Home Girl by Judith Matloff
11/24/2008:  We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee
11/17/2008:  Plato & and Platypus Walk Into a Bar:Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
11/10/2008:  Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall
11/3/2008:  Queen of the Road by Doreen Orion
10/27/2008:  The Hundred-Year Lie by Randall Fitzgerald
10/20/2008:  Merle's Door by Ted Kerasote
10/13/2008:  Indestructible by Jack H. Lucas
9/22/2008:  If the Creek Don't Rise by Rita Williams
9/29/2008:  Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
10/6/2008:  Home to Roost by Bob Sheasley
9/15/2008:  A Pocketful of History by Jim Noles
9/8/2008:  Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian
9/1/2008:  Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch
8/25/2008:  Out of Poverty by Paul Polak
8/18/2008:  Dandelion: A Memoir by Catherine James
8/11/2008:  The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
8/4/2008:  Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap
7/28/2008:  The Hot Topic by Gabrielle Walker & Sir David King
7/21/2008:  The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby
7/14/2008:  Let's Face It by Kirk Douglas
7/7/2008:  The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer 8. Lee
6/30/2008:  The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
6/23/2008:  Too Far From Home by Chris Jones
6/16/2008:  The Big Bam by Leigh Montville
6/9/2008:  How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman
6/2/2008:  Casting with a Fragile Thread by Wendy Kann
5/26/2008:  Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself by Alan Alda
5/19/2008:  Ambitious Brew by Maureen Ogle
5/12/2008:  Madness by Marya Hornbacher
5/5/2008:  When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan
4/28/2008:  American Shaolin by Matthew Polly
4/21/2008:  Sugarcane Academy by Michael Tisserand
4/14/2008:  Bury Us Upside Down by Rick Newman and Don Shepperd
4/7/2008:  The Good, The Bad, and Me by Eli Wallach
3/31/2008:  Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
3/24/2008:  The Last Gentleman Adventurer by Edward Beauclerk Maurice
3/17/2008:  The Sky Isn't visible from here by Felicia C. sullivan
3/10/2008:  A Year Without "Made in China" by Sara Bongiorni
3/3/2008:  Dangerous Doses by Katherine Eban
2/25/2008:  The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa by Josh Swiller
2/18/2008:  James Tiptree, Jr. - The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips

2007

12/31/2007:  The Small-Mart Revolution by Michael H. Shuman
12/24/2007:  French by Heart by Rebecca S. Ramsey
12/17/2007:  1941: The Greatest Year in Sports by Mike Vaccaro
12/10/2007:  Big Coal by Jeff Goodell
12/3/2007:  Mao Zedong by Jonathan D. Spence
11/26/2007:  Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck
11/19/2007:  After Elizabeth by Leanda De Lisle
11/12/2007:  Ivy Briefs by Martha Kimes
11/5/2007:  The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
10/29/2007:   Tab Hunter by Tab Hunter with Eddie Muller
10/22/2007:   The Kings of New York by Michael Weinreb
10/15/2007:   Evidence of Harm by David Kirby
10/8/2007:   Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
10/1/2007:   Stealing Your Life by Frank w. Abagnale
9/24/2007:   The Raising of a President by Doug Wead
9/17/2007:   Bread and Roses by Bruce Watson
9/10/2007:   The Most Famous Man in America by Debby Applegate
9/3/2007:   What it Takes to Pull Me Through by Dave Marcus
8/27/2007:   I Wish I'd Been There, Byron Hollinshead
8/20/2007:   Body Brokers, Annie Cheney
8/13/2007:   Golden Boy, Martin Booth
8/6/2007:   Spy Handler, Victor Cherkashin with Gregory Feifer
7/30/2007:   Tabloid Love, Bridget Harrison
7/23/2007:   The Lost Men, Kelly Tyler-Lewis
7/16/2007:   Eat-Pray-Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
7/9/2007:   Europe's Last Summer, David Fromkin
7/2/2007:   The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Bill Bryson
6/25/2007:   The Baby Business, Debora L. Spar
6/18/2007:   Strange Angel , George Pendle
6/11/2007:   Teach with Your Heart, Erin Gruwell
6/4/2007:   Lovesick Blues, Paul Hemphill
5/28/2007:   Beauty Junkies, Alex Kuczynski
5/21/2007:   The Innocent Man, John Grisham
5/14/2007:   Perfect--Once Removed, Phillip Hoose
5/7/2007:   Blood struggle, Charles F Wilkinson
4/30/2007:   The Ride of Our Lives, Mike Leonard
4/23/2007:   My Freshman Year, Rebekah Nathan
4/16/2007:   Crazy, Pete Earley
4/9/2007:   Instant Replay, Jerry Kramer
4/2/2007:   The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, James D. Hornfischer
3/26/2007:   The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
3/19/2007:   If You Could See Me Now, Michael Mewshaw
3/12/2007:   John Brown: Abolitionist, David S Reynolds
3/5/2007:   The Heartless Stone, Tom Zoellner
2/26/2007:   A Life In Secrets, Sarah Helm
2/19/2007:   The Genome War, James Shreeve
2/12/2007:   The Brothers Bulger, Howie Carr
2/5/2007:   Ice Cream, Marilyn Powell
1/29/2007:   A Kidnapped Mind, Pamela Richardson
1/22/2007:   The Lady and the Panda, Vicki Constantine Croke
1/15/2007:   Future Shop, Daniel Nissanoff
1/8/2007:   Children at war, P W Singer
1/1/2007:   A Sense of the Mysterious, Alan P Lightman

2006

12/25/2006:   The Prison Angel , Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan
12/18/2006:   The Appalachians, Mari-Lynn Evans and Robert Santelli and Holly George-Warren
12/11/2006:   Them, Francine du Plessix Gray
12/4/2006:   Sound and Fury, Dave Kindred
11/27/2006:   Vulnerable In Hearts, Sandy Balfour
11/20/2006:   Generation Me, Jean M. Twenge PHD
11/13/2006:   Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl
11/6/2006:   The Perfect Mile, Neal Bascomb
10/30/2006:   Bury the Chains, Adam Hochschild
10/23/2006:   Becoming Justice Blackmun, Linda Greenhouse
10/16/2006:   Three Cups Of Tea, Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
10/9/2006:   Wedding of the waters, Peter L Bernstein
10/2/2006:   Pandora's Baby, Robin Marantz Henig
9/25/2006:   Fantasyland, Sam Walker
9/18/2006:   Life on the Outside, Jennifer Gonnerman
9/11/2006:   Explorers House, Robert M. Poole
9/4/2006:   Out of Gas, David Goodstein
8/28/2006: T  he Radioactive Boy Scout, Ken Silverstein
8/21/2006:   There and Back Again, Sean Astin
8/14/2006:   Judgment Days, Nick Kotz
8/7/2006:   Ready or Not--Here Life Comes, Melvin D Levine
7/31/2006:   Illicit, Moises Naim
7/24/2006:   Silent snow, Marla Cone
7/17/2006:   Polio, David M Oshinsky
7/10/2006:   Jefferson's Secrets, Andrew Burstein
7/3/2006:   Becoming a Tiger, Susan McCarthy
6/26/2006:   Auschwitz, Laurence Rees
6/19/2006:   Natalie Wood, Gavin Lambert
6/12/2006:   Big Cotton , Stephen Yafa
6/5/2006:   The Devil's Teeth , Susan Casey
5/29/2006:   Saboteurs, Michael Dobbs
5/22/2006:   Marriage  a history, Stephanie Coontz
5/15/2006:   Assassination vacation, Sarah Vowell
5/8/2006:   Brothers In Arms, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
5/1/2006:   The $64 Tomato, William Alexander
4/24/2006:   Animals in translation, Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
4/17/2006:   Bound for Canaan, Fergus M Bordewich
4/10/2006:   The Submarine, Thomas Parrish
4/3/2006:   Chatter, Patrick Radden Keefe
3/27/2006:   Long Way Round, Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman
3/20/2006:   The Story of My Father, Sue Miller
3/13/2006:   Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, Allen C. Guelzo
3/6/2006:   In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
2/27/2006:   Emotional Design, Donald A. Norman
2/20/2006:   The Two Koreas, Don Oberdorfer
2/13/2006:   The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach
2/6/2006:   Swimming to Antarctica, Lynne Cox
1/30/2006:   St. Patrick of Ireland, Philip Freeman
1/23/2006:   The Pecking Order, Dalton Conley
1/16/2006:   Sharing Good Times, Jimmy Carter
1/9/2006:   The Death of Innocents, Helen Prejean
1/2/2006:   The Last Season, Phil Jackson

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